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Bubbles
5y

Who the fuck at Microsoft decided to put python on their store? I don’t care if it’s on the store. What I do give many shits about is that I spent 20 minutes uninstalling and reinstalling and reconfiguring my fucking PATH because the python & python3 commands did not work but instead SENT ME TO THE FUCKING STORE PAGE FOR PYTHON 3.7

THEN I FIND OUT ITS NOT A PROBLEM WITH THE PATH MICROSOFT PURPOSELY CREATED ALIASES FOR BOTH COMMANDS SO THEY HAVE TO SEND YOU TO THE STORE PAGE WHEN YOU TYPE python OR python3 INTO THE CMD OR POWERSHELL.

I turned it off after finding that out, but I’m still furious. Fuck Windows.

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  • 4
    5y
    Why would you install python from the store?

    On another note, who ever uses the store beyond disabling updates and recommended apps.
  • 3
    5y
    I just ran my "regularly" installed Python and this didn't happen at all.
  • 2
    5y
    Shitty as always.

    I really like to know where such ideas come from. Can't be marketing or sales, they're not technical enough for it.

    BTW, how did you turn it off?
  • 0
    5y
    @C0D4 I didn’t get it from the store, a recent windows update created an alias for the python commands so it opens the windows store instead of running the idle or program that you’re trying to run. And I was not informed by the change and was not told how to fix it until I googled.
  • 0
    5y
    @pk76 I’m envious
  • 1
    5y
    @ddephor “Manage app execution aliases” and at that point find python and switch them sumbitches off
  • 2
    5y
    @Bubbles which build of windows are you on?

    This is going to fuck with my automated scripts if this happens.
  • 0
    5y
    @C0D4 Windows Version 1903 (OS Build 18362.418)
  • 2
    5y
    @Bubbles cool, im still in 1809 - company controlled updates are life saving at times 😅
  • 0
    5y
    @C0D4 you’re safe for now. Unless they magically think, “hey we should update to the latest windows version that would improve everyone’s performance!”
  • 3
    5y
    @Bubbles they usually do 🤷‍♂️
    Guess someone's slacking off this month.
  • 1
    5y
    @C0D4 it’s a simple fix it was just incredibly annoying, because that would never happen on Linux.
  • 6
    5y
    @Bubbles idk man, I can totally see Ubuntu swapping things out for Snap packages or whatever it's using this latest release.

    I can't see the others doing it though.
  • 1
    5y
    @Bubbles so after looking into it a bit, I think it's because my install was through VisualStudio Installer.

    Although I wouldn't mind the Store. Either way it's kept up to date.
  • 0
    5y
    @pk76 good thing I don’t use Ubuntu currently
  • 1
    5y
    @C0D4 The store is actually a decent package manager (as far as Windows package managers go), and it's getting more and more of the KDE apps (Kate and Okular are worth grabbing, IMO), so, I guess I do.

    Edit: It handles upgrades reasonably well, although the selection of available stuff is not great.
  • 0
    5y
    @pk76 that makes sense
  • 1
    5y
    in python 3.8 they introduced := operator, so it is pascal now
  • 2
    5y
    @bubbles, Fuck Windows indeed!
  • 0
    5y
    @bvs23bkv33 what does it do?
  • 1
    5y
    @Bubbles
    if (n := len(a)) > 10:
    print(f"List is too long ({n} elements, expected <= 10)")
  • 0
    5y
    @bvs23bkv33 yeah no I’m gonna need words
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